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Reducing power usage is a major aspect of chip design, important especially for energy-efficient systems and battery-powered devices. A significant amount of the power used by a typical chip is consumed by gate switching, and...
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Power consumption is a major aspect of chip design, and the ability to reliably and efficiently predict it can save a lot of engineering cycles. While it is difficult to predict the exact consumption upfront without delving...
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In digital design, ensuring systematic verification of all design aspects requires not only proper planning of design verification and test development, but also tools to track and make sure that design development and verification...
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Antmicro has been providing engineering support for Verilator in a variety of ASIC-related projects, which often include complex, state-of-the-art designs and take a lot of time time and memory to run. Normally, when generating...
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When developing complex FPGA designs and custom SoCs, simulating and testing HDL designs in a larger context is necessary to accurately replicate real use cases. For fast iteration, you can combine cycle-accurate RTL simulation...
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In a long-running collaboration with Google, Antmicro has been working on demonstrating how the XLS Mid-Level Synthesis toolchain can be used to increase productivity of developing highly parallel ASIC solutions.
The initial...
